While China delivered a few hundred Type 85-IIM’s to Pakistan in the 1990s the tank garnered little enthusiasm elsewhere, with war-torn Sudan the sole customer outside of Asia. The resulting Type 85/85-IIM looked like a poor copy of a Soviet tank, with its low profile and prominent main gun fed by an autoloader. Rather than settle on a “Western” model the Chinese Type 80 was used as the basis for a hybrid weapon system that borrowed from second-generation Soviet tanks like the T-64 and T-72. But Indian production of licensed T-72’s compelled a shift in priorities from medium to main battle tanks. Islamabad began importing Type 59’s in the late 1960s and amassed thousands of these tanks over the years. The Type 80 was the PLA’s most capable tank in the late 20th century.ĭuring the 1990s China and Pakistan were collaborating on a new tank design.
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